Beyond the transportation industry, those in manufacturing, construction, and agriculture will, at some point, need flatbed service to conduct some aspect of their operations.
Flatbed service calls for a flatbed truck to transport loads that are either oversized or in unusual configurations. Beyond the transportation industry, those in manufacturing, construction, and agriculture will, at some point, need flatbed service to conduct some aspect of their operations. Whatever products you need hauling for your business, think about whether the load size or weight may make shipping with a trailer an unnecessary difficulty. Instead, consider using a flatbed service to move your load like so many others regularly do.
Building Materials
When most people first think of flatbed service, they usually associate it with the construction industry. Building materials come in all shapes, sizes, and weights. Therefore, if you’re moving a load of building materials, you’re certainly dealing with a shipment beyond standard shape or weight for a tractor-trailer. A flatbed service would be appropriate to transport steel beams, bricks, concrete, lumber, metal sheets, scaffolding, and more. Also, moving modular or pre-fabricated building materials is more common now. The flatbed truck’s open bed makes it easy for workers to use other equipment to load and unload these heavy items.
Heavy Equipment and Vehicles
Depending on the job site, flatbed service is there to haul heavy-duty equipment and vehicles to and from different locations. In fact, you’ll most often see flatbeds carrying farming equipment like tractors or construction equipment like excavators on highways and roads. By hiring a flatbed service to move the heavy equipment, it’s far safer than driving the machine itself to the various job sites. When needed, flatbeds with ramps can get ordinary passenger vehicles loaded onto the truck for towing purposes.
Scrap Metal and Other Materials
Construction sites and other companies may produce scrap metal, concrete, wood, and other materials that need to be removed. Flatbeds can accommodate the varied size and weight of the scrap materials. After it’s loaded onto the truck, drivers can take the scraps to recycling plants, processing facilities, or the junkyard, wherever it needs to go. Owed to the open flatbed, unloading the contents is much quicker too.
Produce and Agriculture
In some places during the produce shipping season, flatbed service can quickly move agricultural products from the fields and farms to nearby processing and packaging factories. Workers load crates or sacks of the picked produce onto the flatbed. After securing the load, the driver takes a short trip to the local processing facility. The journey is short, so a temperature-controlled delivery from the farm to the factory may not be necessary.
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